Word: kidney
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Duke was supposed to have returned to Italy primarily for kidney-stone treatment. Last week's developments explained further. Named new Viceroy of Ethiopia, to do the exhausting job of "civilizing" one of the most recalcitrant native peoples on the globe, was bristling Marshal Rodolfo Graziani, 53. The 64-year-old Duke of Addis Ababa resumed in Italy his post of Chief of the General Staff...
Died, Randolph Perkins, 64. Jersey City, N. J. attorney, since 1920 a member of the U. S. House of Representatives; of a kidney infection; in Georgetown...
...through the capillaries. To do that, he uses glass tubes one five-thousandth of an inch in diameter which he inserts into the tiny bores of capillaries. The manner in which capillary blood rises in those tubes has thrown a considerable light on how heart disease causes dropsy, how kidney diseases develop, how a bruised eye turns black & blue. For this information the College of Physicians gave Dr. Landis their best prize a gold medal...
...make his discovery, Dr. Wilson rigged up a perfusion pump analogous to the artificial heart which Charles Augustus Lindbergh designed for his admiring friend Dr. Alexis Carrel. To his pump Dr. Wilson hitched rabbit kidney after rabbit kidney, and through them perfused artificial blood composed of salt water, red corpuscles from beef blood and oxygen. Upon adding potassium cyanide, which displaces oxygen, Dr. Wilson through his microscope could see oxygen-starved mitochondria crumble while cells of the kidneys, and finally the entire kidneys died...
When he gave the kidneys artificial fevers, they increased their absorption of oxygen until temperatures reached the equivalent of 107° in human beings. When a sick man's temperature reaches that height, his kidneys usually cease to function and he sinks into a coma. Autopsy usually discloses his kidneys damaged. That the damage begins with overexertion of mitochondria in the kidney cells seemed probable last week when Dr. Wilson reported that at the equivalent of 107° fever, rabbit kidney mitochondria suddenly shattered...